Choice in limiters

[RedDog]

I know for a fact that no limiter is going to do it all. I'm really after a lightweight limiter for mixing or a heavy hitter with great metering at the end of my master chain.

What and how are you using for limiting purposes these days? Not looking for a swiss army knife, but a tailor-made suggestion and your personal insight. After all I'm in the market for a few new toys.

 

[aviel]

i normally find the waves 316 really usefull. just use a mastering preset and start tweaking frim there

 

[crillemannen]

i normally find the waves 316 really usefull. just use a mastering preset and start tweaking frim there

Really man?? It sucks donkey balls.

Izotope 5 is really good especially the IRC III algo. Its the best limiter i've tested so far.

 

[Adrian Warren]

Haven't used it myself yet, however it might just be what you need.

 

[aviel]

Really man?? It sucks donkey balls.

Izotope 5 is really good especially the IRC III algo. Its the best limiter i've tested so far.

i havent tried this one actually.. in the studio we use the 316 all the time. for all kind purposes, i record also many schools who just bring students singins for the prome etc, we just use the 316 on the master along with the vocs and the playback and it glues it really good.

the only good settingi found there is the preset mastering enhance 2 though, you have to be carefull not to push it too much though. but it tights the bass as hell.

i find the multiband limiter better for this purpose then a wideband one

 

[schwinginbatman]

Haven't used it myself yet, however it might just be what you need.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7PYjalQ2vQ

I use this for most of my mastering. Works like a charm. IDK about other uses, but FabFilter's stuff seems to be generally quite good.

 

[botus99]

Mastering limiter (or on the mix buss.. however) - Izotope 5 Maximizer

Lightweight limiter - W1, L1, or TLs Maximizer (2 of those are free mind you)

 

[MIAnn]

i really like pro L

 

[Firaxis]

I like voxengo elephant, has a lot of features.

 

[ttrentt]

does anybody here use barricade?

http://www.toneboosters.com/

 

[Leon--]

Waves L2

 

[P-E]

Pro L and Ozone 5 are where it's at IMO.

 

[crillemannen]

Waves L2

And that is even worse then L3.

Seriously, if you care about transients you should really get far faaaaar away from Waves L2-l3. I use L1 on vox but i would never use L1-L3 on the master.

 

[RedDog]

does anybody here use barricade?

http://www.toneboosters.com/

Used it. Presets were ite, but the metering is horrible. Pretty much only shows reduction and the saturation. And knobs? Hate knobs. I'm a slider kind of guy. I had Barricade as one of my first plugs when it was free from JB, along with Ferox. Great older plugs, this version sucks.

Anyone tried AOM?

http://aom-factory.jp/products-page/daw-plug-ins/a-o-m-invisible-limiter/

 

[dennis-m]

Brainworx's BX-XL all the way! http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/videos/bx_xl

 

[Fugdup]

Ever since i got Izotope Ozone i haven't looked back.
It's just great.

 

[RedDog]

Used Ozone 4 last year, was very impressed. Doesn't come standalone, big clincher.

 

[botus99]

Used Ozone 4 last year, was very impressed. Doesn't come standalone, big clincher.

Understandable, but Ozone 5 lets you buy just the maximizer (thats what I did) and the new limiting algo, IIRC III, smokes everything! Food for thought

 

[JonWormwood]

Loving elephant atm. prefer ozone 5.

 

[crillemannen]

Understandable, but Ozone 5 lets you buy just the maximizer (thats what I did) and the new limiting algo, IIRC III, smokes everything! Food for thought

That's what i said the IRC III is really really great. Way better then the one in Ozone 4